The Morning Download: Cloud Becoming Less Disruptive

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Good morning. Vendors of cloud computing may be congratulating themselves on their good fortune, but some of their earliest customers may be losing sleep as the technology enters the mainstream. When on-demand computing first emerged as a serious alternative to buying software and computing infrastructure, it was seen as a way for smaller companies to gain access to resources formerly available only to their larger rivals. But that advantage is being erased, as the likes of Royal Dutch Shell, Nissan Motor and HudBay Minerals are adopting cloud computing to further stretch their massive resources and gain the nimbleness of their smaller rivals.

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